I’ve posted before about the controversy surrounding contributions by retail giant Target to a group called MN Forward which, in turn, is supporting the bid of Republican candidate Tom Emmer for Governor of Minnesota.

The most interesting thing to me about the Shirley Sherrod scandal wasn't her or how she was fired because the Obama Administration was worried that her video was going to appear on Glenn Beck, even though it never did, on the day in question. Instead, what interested me most was a relatively bit player in this episode...

One respectable answer is that they don't. Many an op-ed has been written to elaborate the point, but this won't be one of them. Such answer is neither useful nor reassuring when we are speaking of our intelligence bureaucracy, which we can't do without.